BF> Many moons ago, before binkp was invented, someone came up with the BF> brilliant idea to put internet connection via TCP/IP into the BF> nodelist, in a way that didn't break any existing software.
BF> The idea was to give the IP numbers the country code of 000. So, e.g. BF> my "phone number" today would be 000-90-227-100-38. FrontDoor was one BF> of the first mailers that could handle this.
+1
BF> Unfortunately some ignorant kid in Australia claimed that this could BF> lead to mailers calling their emergency number (000). Happily ignoring BF> the fact that *all* POTS mailers back then had to translate the "raw" BF> node number in the node list to a number that the modem could dial. BF> And if the node could dial the NC (a requirement) there's no way that BF> the node could start dialling 000.
exactly! +1
BF> Almost all of us knew that. Back then nodes (half a dozen I seem to BF> recall) in New Delhi, India had the country and regional number BF> starting with 91-1, but we never had any reports about mailers calling BF> the US emergency number.
and there were no reports of any Z1 nodes calling india either... the main reason this and the one above with 000- worked is because those are stripped off for numbers in your own country... in india 91-1 became 1... in the US the leading 1- is stripped off so all you have is the area code, the exchange, and the number...
BF> But all five ZCs back then except Z1C fell for the hoax and banned BF> this brilliant idea. The rest is, as the saying goes, history.
+1
BF> Nowadays we obviously don't need this bright idea any more, now we BF> have binkp and several mailers supporting that protocol, thanks to our BF> Russian friends. <3
nice :)
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